those industries you mentioned there's no opting out of them. example: the usa goes to war. your tax dollars support that. you don't get to opt out. there is no such thing. but if you disagree with bitcoin or don't have a personal need for it, you're not forced to participate in it. so why should you have to shoulder expenses from it like higher electricity bills?
That sounds like an issue that is specific to any industry that consumes tons of electricity. Any industry that siphons a lot of electricity will result in a higher overall demand on the grid. I don’t think the residents should be shouldering the increased burden, but it does seem to be a failure of the state.
Any industry that can potentially cause a degraded standards of living to the locals should compensate them. Unfortunately, this is an ongoing issue way before Bitcoin. For profit maximizing companies, they don’t care. I fail to see how this is a localized issue to Bitcoin and removing it would solve the issue once and for all.
obviously i fault the companies. they're the worst. but if bitcoin didn't exist then neither would they. You never heard about noise pollution from bitcoin mining operations in China? Maybe that's because they have more serious pollution problems there to deal with like industrial and air pollution. And so the noise pollution issue doesn't get as much press.
Or maybe they’re in the secluded and rural areas?
i think the government of china is ultimately responsible for all of their pollution problems. not having enough regulations and things.
So bitcoin mining companies research and try and take advantage of local governments who are unaware of the noise pollution issue of having large mines. So its hard to put the blame on local governments who are in that type of situation having to play "catch up". Hopefully they do though, for the sake of local residents health like in Granbury Texas those poor folks were in hell. I'm not sure how that all played out either. They might still be suffering.
Similarly, lax regulations and cryptofriendly policies in Texas has enabled these problems to surface.
If you think the local governments are unaware of the potential effects, then you’re dead wrong. This issue has been there for a long time and they simply don’t care. The focus of the politics isn’t on these kind of issues currently unfortunately.
I don't think that Satoshi could have foreseen these type of issues popping up. How big bitcoin mining operations would get where they would go and take over an entire town and envelop it with noise pollution. Satoshi was a genius but that's one thing he definitely did not foresee.
In his defence, I don’t think he is an environmentalist. If Bitcoin started out with Proof of Stake, then we probably wouldn’t have Bitcoin today or any other crypto for that matter.
Anywhere bitcoin mines locate there is going to be a noise pollution issue from what i can tell. It just so happens that alot of mines choose to locate in Texas right now. But as time goes on, expect them to locate in alot of different states most likely. A mine in everyone's backyard. What a disaster!
I believe there is a better way to deal with it than trying to change the fundamental mechanism of a trillion dollar currency, multi billion mining industry.
Make your local senator care!